Engineering Manager - Pexels in London

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you’re probably keen to find out what’s on offer, so we’ll get straight to the point.

Where and how you can work

The buzzing Canva London campus features several buildings around beautiful leafy Hoxton Square in Shoreditch. While our global headquarters is in Sydney, Australia, London is our HQ for Europe, with all kinds of teams based here, plus event spaces to gather our team and communities. You’ll experience a warm welcome from our Vibe team at front of house, amazing home cooked food from our Head Chef and a variety of workspaces to hang out with your team mates or get solo work done. That said, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals and so you have choice in where and how you work.

What you’d be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that’s all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you’ll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve. At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Working with designers and product managers to scope out new features, functionality, and technical requirements.
• Proposing and implementing innovative approaches and solutions to ensure we future-proof features.
• Participating in code review processes, as a code author and a reviewer.
• Coach, lead, and mentor your team to help them achieve their goals.
• Perform structured performance reviews with your team members, conduct regular 1:1s, participate in the hiring process of new engineers, and plan goals & milestones for your team.
• Foster a positive and productive work environment by promoting collaboration, open communication, and continuous learning and development opportunities for your team.

You’re probably a match if

• You have a proven record of crafting high-performance commercial software in Ruby for large-scale global projects. (Our stack is Ruby on Rails, React, MySQL, Redis, S3.)
• You’re grounded in computer science and engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.
• You communicate confidently in writing and verbally, and you can lead both technical and non-technical conversations with colleagues.
• You have several years of people management experience, leading and mentoring other software engineers. You care deeply about mentorship and thrive by empowering others.
• You have a strong sense of ownership and are eager to proactively find and develop novel solutions to challenging problems.
• You have experience in embedding AI-enabled development practices within your teams that meaningfully improve cycle times.

About the team

At Pexels, we empower artists to showcase their work to millions of users annually. Our stock photo and video marketplace is one of the largest sites in the world. The content is ingested into Canva, making it available for everyone to use. While we’re part of Canva we’re excited to continue consistently building great new features for the standalone Pexels product. As a team, we’re curating a highly-motivated, high-trust, empowered group of engineers building large-scale global products. Pexels is organized as (value stream aligned) cross-functional teams. Each team owns one important aspect of the business of Pexels and delivers on those outcomes, with engineers encouraged to be full stack, and close collaboration with other departments like marketing, community and content being essential.

What’s in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you’ll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work. Here’s a taste of what’s on offer:

• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process. We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you! Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.